Women in Ancient Societies

This book presents the results from recent research into women's lives and their representations in various ancient societies, its 14 papers deriving from the first three years of an ongoing seminar series held at Oxford University. Contributors include: L Nixon (Gender bias in archaeology) ; A Depla (Women in ancient Egyptian wisdom literature) ; R Hawley (The problem of women philosophers in ancient Greece) ; H King (Hippocratic gynaecology) ; M Wyke (The rhetoric of adornment in the Roman world) ; A Cameron (Early Christianity and the discourse of female desire) ; J Herrin (Public and private forms of religious commitment among Byzantine women) ; F Gameson (Women in Anglo-Saxon poetry) ; J Leslie (An orthodox view of Hindu women) .